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Franklin Library: LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS: WINTHROP COVENANT:MASSACHUSETTS: ARISTOCRAT

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Louis Auchincloss' "The Winthrop Covenant," Illustrated by Jerry Pickney, a limited edition, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1976. Bound in brown leather, the book has moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Louis Stanton Auchincloss, who lived from 1917--2010, was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. Spanning three centuries, these nine stories share the conflicts of a wealthy New England family while portraying the rise and fall of the Puritan ethic. The Winthrop Heritage begins in the stern confines of the Massachusetts Bay Colony—Governor John Winthrop’s covenant with God versus Anne Hutchinson’s compulsion to martyrdom. The burden of conscience falls in varying ways to the Governor’s descendants. To his grandson, a judge in the Salem witch trials, it means dying in torment. To Rebecca Bayard, wife of a Hudson Valley patroon, it becomes an obsessive sense of duty leading to ironic consequences. It persuades an American diplomat, negotiating in Paris with the canny Talleyrand, to reject the easy gain of private power. On the eve of the Civil War, Winthrop Ward, pillar of rectitude in New York society, finds himself playing God at the price of his own humanity. At the century’s turn, there is Adam Winthrop, wealthy clubman and cultural arbiter, and his protégée Ada Guest—the passionate bluestocking novelist who opts to escape his stifling patronage. In a New England boarding school in the 1920s, the headmaster’s bedeviled Winthrop soul becomes a strange challenge to the chaplain. On the current scene, young and fashionable Natica Seligmann yearns for salvation from an empty life. And finally, there is John Winthrop Gardiner, staunch State Department hawk, whose son is an Army deserter—and whose alcoholic ex-wife perceives only too clearly the latter-day perversions of the Puritan spirit. 294 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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Binding: Leather

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Publisher: Franklin Iibrary FIRST EDITION SOCIETY

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Year Printed: 1976

Original/Facsimile: Original

Language: English

Illustrator: Jerry Pickney

Special Attributes: Luxury Edition

Author: Louis Auchincloss

Region: Massachusetts

Personalized: No

Topic: Massacusetts Winthrops

Character Family: Winthrops

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